[HTL] & [TXT] Awards/Medals/Cards Hack [vB3]

Awards/ Medals/ Cards Hack [vB3]
By: AnimeWebby
Idea by: Lesane
Updated: 28nd May 2004 - Installer not table prefix friendly.

What this hack does:
This hack allows you to add awards, medals or cards to your vbulletin and assign these to members who you think deserve them.
These graphics will then show up in their member profile and/or their postbits depending on where you choose to add this hack.

New in v2
- Extra page showing all awards available as well as all the users who have earned an award.
- Support for full urls and relative ones for award icons.
- Support for awards on showpost and announcement

Other Stuff:
Although I give credit to Lesane for the idea this hack is totally recoded to be less server intensive and also uses a whole lot less queries. Therefor I do not consider this a 'port'.

Installation:
Download the appropriate .Zip file and follow the instructions in the readme file.

Upgrading:
So far there are no ways to upgrade this hack, if you have an old copy installed then you need to uninstall and reinstall from scratch.

Coming Soon:
- Awards added to the search and memberlists.
- Added functions to the addition of awards as well as cron functions to assign awards automatically to those members with 'X' posts, registered 'X' days etc...
- Option to show award name rather than graphic.
- Option to turn awards OFF & ON in postbit and memberinfo
- Request award on awards page (at Cyricx' request)
(not necessarily in that order)

Make sure you backup your files and database first! This hack has been tested on vB RC1 and RC4 only!

Please click the install button

If you experience any errors, problems or the hack doesn't seem to be functioning correctly then send me a pm with the following info:
- HTL or Standalone installer.
- Version of vB you are running.
- File where error is encountered.
- Exact error or description of error.

Views so far:
[NORMAL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.1.zip (12.7 KB, 69 views)
[HTL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.1.zip (12.8 KB, 57 views)
[TXT]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.zip (8.5 KB, 278 views)
[HTL]AwardsMedalsCardsv2.zip (10.2 KB, 203 views)

If you installed this hack before 23rd May and are getting foreach errors in your showthread then follow the step below:

In /includes/functions_showthread.php find:

PHP Code:

    // sorts through all the stuff to return the postbit template 


below that add:

PHP Code:

    // user awards
    global $userawards; 


If in your showthread.php member post counts show N/A, they have no profile link or their user title is guest you MUST run 'Fix broken user profiles' in the update counters part of the admincp. This is found under the nav bar 'Import & Maintenance' > 'Update Counters' > 'Fix broken user profiles'. This will add the awards for all the users currently in your database and prevent showing incorrent member info.

[lasto]

so no one has installed this successfully as yet then ??

[blubber12]

Well went though a fresh install and still the same problems. biggest problem is the entire forum pushes completely over the the right of the screen...login types from right to left...and there is no access to acmincp. on login to htere..the message comes up .thank you for logging in...notice the period in front of thank Then the screen goes back to login. On posting 3 errors come up showing problems in functions_showthread line 68... When I remove the modded functions.php and adminfunctions.php, everything goes back to normal..but of course there's no hack now. Also on the admincp..there shows a new blank box with no arrow, and unclickable.

[Oblivion Knight]

I had the exact same problems as listed above by blubber12 testing it on my test board.

[Cheffe]

Originally Posted by Oblivion Knight

I had the exact same problems as listed above by blubber12 testing it on my test board.

Me too, same errors using RC2.

[xug]

Originally Posted by Lesane

Good to see that it's ported over to vb3, good work.

Hey Lesane.

Maybe you need to convert yours, then for sure we get a working hack

[InfiniteWebby]

This is a working hack however it is only working on my Gamma 1 test board. It may be the way i setup the instructions or there might be changes in the code since Gamma 1. I have not had access to download the latest vbulletin but I will do so soon and try to get this fixed.

[InfiniteWebby]

I have fixed the problem. For a temporary fix to installing this hack you MUST run 'Fix broken user profiles' in the update counters part of the admincp. This is found under the nav bar 'Import & Maintenance' > 'Update Counters' > 'Fix broken user profiles'. This will add the awards for all the users currently in your database. BEFORE your perform step 10!!!!

I will try to get a HTL version released to fix any other problems arising from the phrases.

[blubber12]

Well I would gladly run the update..but once all the files are changed..the board distorts and logging in is impossible..The login problem disappears once the adminfunctions.php is replaced with the original...but that is way before step 10..

[InfiniteWebby]

The problem had nothing to do with the adminfunctions.php. It was happening because in the functions.php the getuserinfo function was looking for a table that didnt exist at the time. Thus running the fix broken user profiles would populate this table and the problem was solved.

I have however fixed this by using a left join instead of an inner join where the table is not required to be populated. So give the new installers a try.

P.S I have added some screenies too! and the htl version of this hack.

[deathemperor]

great, I'm waiting for the Gold version of Vb3, I will install this at the time I got the Gold Vb3.
question: can I make Awards for users who won Arcade games ?